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His latest? Obama won the election “by suppressing the vote,” Rove opined Thursday on Fox News, with a straight face. This doesn’t mean armed thugs turning Republicans away from the polls, mind you. According to Rove, all one needs to do to suppress the vote is run some negative ads.

“They effectively denigrated Mitt Romney’s character, business acumen, experience,” he said. Of course, by these standards every presidential candidate since Thomas Jefferson hired a writer to smear John Adams as “mentally deranged” has “suppressed the vote.” Indeed, Rove and his colleagues at Fox News and other conservative media have been “suppressing the vote” the entire time Obama has been in office. It’s amazing Obama won in 2008 after all the Republican “vote suppression” that went on that year.

Losing is tough, but Rove has tarnished what little reputation he had prior to the election by pouring away millions of dollars on losing candidates and refusing to accept reality when it’s staring him in the face. He could learn a thing or two from Mitt Romney’s gracious concession speech and try to save what little dignity he has left.

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